Most often we grow up garlic so: has put clove in the fall – has received head in August. And garlic – two-year culture. It is surprisingly unpretentious if to grow up it according to its nature.
Undoubted plus of one-year garlic landings – it is usual. It is easy to plan where and that will be put. Obvious minus – planting stock gradually degenerates. Many gardeners are sorry to earth the best copies, especially if the previous harvest has not pleased.
Growing up winter garlic, we leave several heads for control of terms of maturing. The hat has cracked – seeds are ready. It is possible to dig out garlic and to use at discretion.
Cultivation of garlic from seeds takes 2 years, and here demands efforts very little. At the same time the benefit is huge. At crops of garlic bulbochka since fall we receive from only one bed:
- greens on salad already next spring,
- onions one-teeth on food and for salting in the middle of the first summer,
- greens and one-teeth on food in the spring of the second year,
- full-fledged harvest of excellent heads of garlic in August of the second year.
The harvest of tomatoes from the same bed in the first year of cultivation of garlic from seeds also will go to offset.
On kitchen garden it is possible to use methods of natural agriculture: crops of siderat, mulching, the mixed landings. Cultivation of garlic from seeds is very simple. It is not required to dig, loosen and replace. Covered with mulch layer, garlic almost does not need watering at all. Seeds does not need to be stored. Even the extra space on kitchen garden is not required.
Stage 1. Fall, crops
In September-October svobodivshuyusya we clean bed from the previous harvest, we loosen the earth with mattock superficially. We mark grooves no more than 5-7 cm in depth at distance of 20-25 centimeters one from another. Seius garlic bulbochka more often. In the same furrow we sow white mustard as green fertilizer. Mustard will ascend in several days and to the frosts will increase green material. It is not necessary neither to mow, nor to break. The winter will come, and mustard will cover bed with garlic, forming natural mulch without assistance.
Stage 2. Spring, shoots, landingsIn the spring almost at once from under snow garlic begins to ascend. Part it can be used greens in salad.
The soil remains is covered with layer of last year's greens. When the threat of frosts passes, we do by sovochok small holes and we place in bed with garlic tomatoes, pepper or eggplants in one row on the center of bed. Perfectly lit with the sun from all directions, vegetables yield excellent harvest.
During the summer the unusual gryadochka needs only watering. When sprouts of garlic begin to turn yellow and wither, it is possible to dig out onions one-teeth for food or salting.
Stage 3. Fall, harvesting
In the fall the harvest of vegetables is reaped. Sprouts of garlic have lain down even in the summer. Leave bushes on bed, let detain snow. During leaf fall cover bed with the fallen-down foliage.
Stage 4. Spring, shoots, cleaningWe remove bushes of last year's vegetable cultures from bed. We delete excess garlic, leaving between plants among 15-20 centimeters. We add fresh mulch during the summer several times. We water as required, but without fanaticism. Let's indulge plants with herbal tea 3-4 times during the season. Let's leave several arrows on blossoming.
Stage 5. Harvesting
In August we take out garlic from bed. We remove seeds for new crops.
The bed is prepared for use, additional application of fertilizers is not required. It is possible to seed in it fast cultures at once – garden radish, greens, Chinese cabbage or daikon. It is possible to use it and for subwinter crops.